{"product_id":"leicester-and-the-court-9780719053252","title":"Leicester and the Court","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of sixteen essays by Simon Adams on Elizabethan history, centring around Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Faction, clientage and party: English politics, 1550–1603\u003cbr\u003e2. Eliza enthroned? The Court and its politics\u003cbr\u003e3. Favourites and their factions at the Elizabethan Court\u003cbr\u003e4. The patronage of the crown in Elizabethan politics: the 1550s in perspective\u003cbr\u003e5. The Eltonian legacy: politics\u003cbr\u003e6. The Court as an economic institution\u003cbr\u003e7. Queen Elizabeth’s eyes at Court: The Earl of Leicester\u003cbr\u003e8. The Dudley clientele, 1553–63\u003cbr\u003e9. A Puritan crusade? The composition of Leicester’s expedition to the Netherlands, 1585–86\u003cbr\u003e10. The Dudley clientele and the House of Commons, 1559–86\u003cbr\u003e11. A godly peer? Leicester and the Puritans\u003cbr\u003e12. The gentry of north Wales and Leicester’s expedition to the Netherlands, 1585–86\u003cbr\u003e13. The Composition of 1564 and Leicester’s tenurial reformation in the lordship of Denbigh\u003cbr\u003e14. Office-holders of the borough of Denbigh and the lordships of Denbighshire in the reign of Elizabeth I\u003cbr\u003e15. ‘Because I am of that countrye \u0026amp; mynde to plant myself there’: Leicester and the West Midlands\u003cbr\u003e16. Baronial contexts? Continutity and change in the noble affinity, 1400–1600\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037287645527,"sku":"9780719053252","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719053252.jpg?v=1750935168","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/leicester-and-the-court-9780719053252","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}